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Boring. Even an IC engine operating at the Carnot limit would still emit carbon. Convert every IC on earth to a one with theoretically perfect efficiency and we
by tyho 6y ago
Boring. Even an IC engine operating at the Carnot limit would still emit carbon. Convert every IC on earth to a one with theoretically perfect efficiency and we still blast past 1.5deg warming in a few decades.
- ReticentVole 6y agoPlus the cognitive impacts of higher CO2, plus ocean acidification, plus the noise and pollution being exhausted at ground level inside cities, plus supporting barbaric regimes that mine the oil. Just scrap it all and go full electric. Coming out of COVID lockdown is a great time to invest and mandate.
- baq 6y agoMany people can’t believe that if we improve IC engines a couple percent a year we’ll be at the Carnot limit in a few decades.
- rootusrootus 6y agoWe're an awful long way from having battery storage on par with liquid energy storage, and battery tech improves steadily but not exponentially. Having good IC engine designs is going to be important for decades. We will need to start generating liquid fuel that is carbon neutral.